Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The time is gone when mere accidents could still happen to me; and what could still come to me now that was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We are misidentified—because we ourselves keep growing, keep changing,127 we shed our old bark, we shed our skins every spring, we keep… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ages of happiness. - An age of happiness is quite impossible, because men want only to desire it but not to have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
